ACCOUNT-BASED MARKETING STRATEGY

March 20, 2018

Half of marketing influencers consider aligning their initiatives with sales teams a top priority for an ABM strategy in 2018. But what priorities should your ABM strategy include? To help you answer this question, Ascend2 and our Research Partners fielded the Account-Based Marketing Strategy Survey. We thank the marketing influencers responding to this survey for sharing their valuable insights with us, and you. This Survey Summary Report, titled Account-Based Marketing Strategy, represents the average of all the market segments responding to the survey. Specific market segments from the survey are reported on separately and exclusively by our participating Research Partners. This research has been produced for your use. Put it to work in your own marketing strategy. Clip the charts and write about them in your blog or post them on social media. Please share this research credited as published.

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BBN - The World's B2B Agency

The world’s most talented and experienced B2B marketing professionals, united by a single proposition: BBN. The bold new generation of B2B agency. BBN is a collaborative agency-owned organisation, with every agency-partner an equity shareholder – all sharing the same genuine passion for B2B. Our collective knowledge and understanding of communications in the sector is almost impossible to match. Working together, our combined advantage means we significantly influence what can be achieved when a business talks to another business. We’re proud to stand for full service capability; spanning strategy, creativity, technology and implementation. It’s not just brilliant, but also surprising.

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